Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based …
Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we’re forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has decided for us. You can’t have …
WASHINGTON-While the Clinton administration is pledging stricter enforcement of trade pacts involving telecommunications and other business sectors, the future relationship between the United States and Japan has been left uncertain …
WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …
WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Mike Synar (D-Okla.), who had been named to head the U.S. delegation to the International Telecommunications Union’s World Radiocommunications Conference ’95 meeting on mobile satellite communications, died from …
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Washington/Baltimore Cellular L.P.-doing business as Cellular One-alleging that the company is attempting to levy increased interconnection fees on its subscribers in violation …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. announced Dennis Foster will become president and chief executive officer of Sprint Cellular and Frank Reed will become nonmanagement chairman of the unit after its expected …
Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of …
Rural Cellular Corp. hopes to raise about $30 million in an initial public offering of common stock that could occur as early as this month. The IPO would make the …
LAS VEGAS-A group of California entrepreneurs have invented a robot to program phones in the retail environment. “With only brief training, a nontechnical retail employee can program any phone in …
The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry’s effort and the complicated process to …
“It’s always behooved people to be the little person, able to sit back and see which technologies are most appropriate and have the longest shelf life.” -Edward Snook, a C-block …
Motorola Inc. has introduced a lightweight, flip-top cellular phone that can be worn on a belt holster or armband. Weighing 3.1 ounces, the StarTac operates on two miniaturized batteries. When …
AT&T Wireless Services announced three executive positions for its North Texas/Louisiana district. Todd Felker is now director of marketing and is responsible for advertising, distribution strategy, market research and analysis, …
God weighed in on the budget debate between Congress and the Clinton administration last week, dumping two feet of snow on the nation’s capital shortly after negotiators agreed to end …
L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to expand the capacity and radio coverage …
JACKSON, Miss.-Personal considerations motivated Bernard Puckett to resign his post as chief executive officer of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. According to the company, Puckett’s resignation is effective immediately and company …
Despite Motorola Inc.’s initial $10.62 loss on Wall Street after posting a 16 percent plunge in fourth quarter earnings, its stock started to forge a quick recovery. But while Wall …
BETHESDA, Md. – Lockheed Martin corp. and Loral Corp. announced an agreement on a series of interrelated strategic transactions with an estimated value exceeding $10 billion. Under the agreement, Lockheed …
WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public’s mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of …
